The ordeal of the American woman
- Date
1959
- Summary
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Can a career woman make a good mother? Max Lerner and six Brandeis students discuss the double dilemma of the American woman. In school she is caught between doing well scholastically and finding a man. Later it is the problem of a career versus homemaking. But there is a resistance to careers for women in this country. Today as opposed to the thirties, the woman is accused of marrying for security rather than for love. Before marriage the standard is to hold everything and to give nothing. After marriage the situation is reversed. The ideal solution appears to be have the fling and career before marriage. But the woman of today is still groping for the media between the two. Each must find the way most suitable for herself – the dilemma will then be solved.
- Contributors
WGBH-TV; The Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council; Max Lerner; Lewis Barlow; Timothy Elliott; Donna Medoff; Fred Milstein; Martin Peretz; Esther Kartiganer
- Publishers
National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
- Genres
Educational; Talk; Women
- Subject
Women ; Marriage.
- Collection
National Educational Television
- Unit
IUL Moving Image Archive
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- No Copyright - United States
- Physical Description
1 Film (0:00:00); 16mm
- Other Identifiers
IULMIA Film Database: 40000003381649; Other: GR00427944
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: the public.